Father Divine's Sermon before the Verdict at Mineola, L.I.,N.Y.

FATHER DIVINE'S
SERMON BEFORE
THE VERDICT AT
MINEOLA,L.L,N.Y,

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FATHER DIVINE'S
SERMON BEFORE
THE VERDICT AT
MINEOLA,L.L,N.Y,

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Reverend Major J. Divine

FOREWORD

The following Sermon was given
by Reverend M. ]. Divine of 72
Macon Street, Sayville, Long Island,
New York, on the evening of May
24th, 1932 A.D.F.D. at the Union
Temple Baptist Church, 132nd
Street, New York City, before the
verdict at Mineola, Nassau County,
New York.

EACE! It is Wonderful! I know you
all are happy! I was glad to hear the
wonderful music that the gentleman
played who thinks he is blind — or that some
of you think is blind. Some of you think he is
blind, too. But I know that God is his sight.
That is the great significance of the Omnis-
cience and Omnipresence of God, to be that
One and be their All in all. For one to realize
that actually and truly, God is their five physical
senses. It is Wonderful! When you are foolish
enough to believe that, then according to your
faith, so be it unto you. Men have believed
such seemingly radical, unbelievable things,
and to them it has been made real and brought
into expression. But I can prove to you con-
clusively, if I just had a little time to do so,
that it is true.

God — Your Five Physical Senses

I will not endeavor to go into the full aspects
of it tonight, as I have something else to do
just now. But, however, I will say to you, that
GOD IS YOUR SIGHT! Your five physical

senses. God is actually each one of them, ex-
pressing through the members that are called
your nose, your eyes, your ears, your mouth,
and your body. God is your five physical senses
for the physical man, and teaches you what
He wants you to know by some or all of these
five physical senses. And when you realize that
God is in reality all of these five physical senses,
why, then you will come back to your right
mind. It is Wonderful to know that God has
come, and after God has come, you cannot
have bad sight! But you can have sight that
is good, because God is good. You can have a
taste that is good, and always a good taste in
your mouth, for God is good. You can always
have a good feeling, if you know it, because
God is good.

In the recognition of God being both it and
them, your hearing, and all of your five physical
senses, and applying that thought to your mind,
why, you can see even also as I can. It is Christ
in you and Christ in Me, will make you what
you ought to be, and from every limitation

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set you free, if you only live the life. But you
must cast out of your system, by casting it out
of your consciousness, and out of all of your
mentality, all prejudices, bigotry, resentment,
anger, envy, malice, and strife; all doubts and
all fears, all divisions and distinctions, races,
creeds and colors, and denominations of every
kind, and recognize your at-one-ment with
your fellow-men, that you might be one with
God. It is Wonderful!

I just wish to bring those few points before
your consideration and show you how and
where, and here and now, is the time that you
can apply God to all of your five physical
senses, or the members of your five physical
senses that represent them, and be the direct
manifester of the perfect, invisible God, work-
ing through your system. You can rid yourself
of every negative condition by your recogni-
tion of God within, and God without, for there
is no other. For the God that has ever been
and ever will be, is within and without, and
is walking and talking in you if you only know

it. And in that you can see, that the Truth of
God is verified, as recorded by one of the
Apostles, saying that "Christ is All in all."
Christ is in every joint, every sinew, every limb,
every bone, every vein and fibre, every cell,
and every atom of your bodily form.

Christ in You

And I AM talking about the GOD that
created the Heaven and the earth and all
things that in Him are. The same One is walk-
ing and talking in you tonight. And that same
One is dwelling in your midst, and that same
One is in your eyes. That same One is in your
ears and that same One is in every muscle,
every nerve and every cell of your bodily form.
It is Wonderful!

"To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the mystery of
the Glory among the gentiles, which
is Christ in you, the hope of Glory."

It is Wonderful!

"Christ in you, the hope of Glory,

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Him we preach, warning every man
and teaching every man in all wis-
dom, that we may present every man
perfect in Christ Jesus."

You cannot be perfect unless you are made
perfect by the recognition of God, your Fa-
ther. God is the only One that can make you
perfect. You can be presented perfect — per-
fect before God. For it is written,

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your
Father which is in Heaven is perfect/'

And that is your privilege, to put off all of
the mortal mind and all of your mortal ten-
dencies, fancies and pleasures. It is Wonderful!
Put them all out of you. And let God rise and
reign in you. Then you will know even as I
know, that there is no other. You will know
that there is no other God that lives and moves,
saving the One that lives and moves in your
being. And in Him you live, move and have
your being — and in YOU, HE lives, moves
and has HIS Being. Now aren't you glad to

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realize that, dear ones! It will eliminate every
harsh condition, every undesirable condition,
and it will adjust every adverse or undesirable
matter satisfactorily, when you realize that it
is God within you, that is working both to will
and to do of HIS Own good pleasure! Now
aren't you glad! Aren't you glad, I say! ("So
glad, GOD ALMIGHTY!" came the joyful
response.)

Aren't you glad, because you know not only
that Christ has risen nineteen hundred years
ago, but you realize that He is risen now. HE
is risen in your soul! Risen in your being! Your
joints, and your sinews, your veins and your
bones! And that is why you know that Christ
has risen and that is why you know that Christ
has come.

An Eye That Is Single

If any man believes, if any man knows any-
thing about God, you must know it is by faith.
"Therefore, being justified by faith, we have
peace with God." After that you realize that

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you know God, because you have peace with
God. Having peace with God, you begin to
believe, and believe more and more, until you
are endowed with power from on high. Where
this Power comes from is higher than you are,
and it will give you the inspiration of Truth,
for, "When He the Spirit of Truth is come He
will guide you into all Truth, and teach you
all things whatsoever I have said unto you."
Again to lead you and guide you into the paths
of righteousness for His Great Name's sake,
and then and there, and here and now, you be-
gin to have an eye that is single, that you can
see God with. Why can you see God when
your eye is single? Because it says,

"Blessed are the pure in heart for
they SHALL see God!"

If you have a pure heart, it will anoint your
eyes with the eye-salve of salvation. And then
you can see God here and now, and walking
and talking in His bodies, as tabernacles, as
temples, and in the children of men.

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We rejoice because we know that He dwell-
eth with you, as said the Apostle of Christ in
St. John 14:17,

"He dwelleth with you and shall be
in you."

He has always been with you.

"HE was in the world and the world
was made by Him, and the world
knew him not."

But by your recognition of Him,

"To them gave He power to become
the Sons of God."

That is your privilege, to have the same identi-
cal Power of Jesus Christ, and be just like
Him and not another.

It is written,

"In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the
Word was God, and the Word was
made flesh and dwelt among us —

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and we beheld His Glory as of the
Only Begotten of the Father, full of
Grace and of Truth."

It is Wonderful! "We beheld His Glory!" His
Glo-ray, the rays of HIS Glory and that glow
so bright! We beheld the rays of His Glo-ray
and the glow of His rays that lighteth up your
souls — for in Him was Life and that Life was
the light of men that lighteth every man that
cometh into the world. Aren't you glad! Light-
eth every man every one of them that cometh
into the world!

The Light of Life

Then I heard, I say I heard the answer
of the prophecy of Isaiah in actuality, not only
in words, but actions speak louder than words!
Then and there, and here and now, I heard
the answer to the prophecy and to the request
of Isaiah, saying, "Rise and shine, for thy light
has come." Do you not see the Glory of the
rays of God and the glows of His rays? There-
fore it is a mighty mental glow and it is a

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mighty mental ray! Your heart's all aglow! It is
all aglow, I say! Because you have made con-
tact with the Infinite One! And by your recog-
nition of the Infinite One without, you found
that the same One is within, and that is what
is lighting up your dark pathway. As He said,
in Him was Life and that Life was the Light
of Life that lighteth every man that cometh
into the world! When you realize this Truth
and begin to live and walk worthy of the voca-
tion wherewith you are called, it is Wonderful!
This Light lighteth every man, I say, that
cometh into the world, and this Light and Life
is Love. This Light and Life is God. It is Won-
derful!

Now you all are rejoicing because you saw
the Light, did you not? Did you not see the
Light of Glory? You saw the Light as though
it was from the Heaven come down. Lighting
up your dark pathway of misunderstanding!
And making your gloomy ways bright as noon-
day and turning your darkness into Light! I
know you are compelled to be glad! You have

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lighted your candle! I did not mean to say —
I do not mean to say, "Give me a light for my
cigar or cigarette," but if I have no light, light
my candle. I came to light your candles, and
some will give another man a light with a cigar
or a cigarette. "I will make the wrath of man
praise Thee!" It is written, "The wrath of man
shall praise Thee." And I say that abominable
habits of men shall be for My defense. It is
Wonderful! Aren't you glad!

When you take your cigar and give another
man a light, that should have been taking your
heart and your understanding and giving an-
other man a light to light up his understand-
ing. It is Wonderful! That is just what it should
have been, but you have taken it for a mortal
habit, a worldly pleasure. And you went around
and said, "Say, give me a light." I want you
to go to someone that has been lighted up with
the fire of the Holy Ghost and tell him to give
you a Light. Tell him to give you a Light! For
in him is Light, and that Light is the Light of
men that lighteth every man that cometh into

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the world. Aren't you glad? ("So glad!" came
the shout from the vast multitude.)

The Glo-rays of God

Therefore, I say unto you, let your light so
shine now since you have seen the Light and
since you have risen, for the Light has come
and the Glory of God is risen upon you! The
Glo-rays of God are risen upon you! And
through the mighty Glo-rays of God, why, it
has glorified His Great Name in the earth and
manifested the Christ to the souls of the chil-
dren of men. Aren't you glad! And the Glo-
rays have made you a lump of radium! Aren't
you glad! Because the Light has lighted you
up! In Him was Life and the Life was the Light
of men that lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. Aren't you glad that you are
now lumps of radium? I say you are now lumps
of radium! You are to be hung on the electric
bulb, on the electric cord. He came, the Life
and the Light that giveth light to every man
that cometh into the world. I say you will be

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as the light of radium, to light the way to the
Light that turns darkness into day and the
darkness into Light. Aren't you glad!

| Every one of you can rise and shine now,

!J for the Light has truly come, and the Glo-ray

of God has rayed His glows upon you. It is
Wonderful! I say the Glow, the Glows of God
have rayed their rays on you. The rays of the
Light of the sunlight of Life have rayed on
you. You know when you put your radium in
the electric light for a while it is more bright
after it has stayed in the light a little while,
than it is when it is in the dark. You can verify
this by going to the five-and-ten-cent store and
you can get one of those little things that hang
up there so you can see how to get your elec-
tric light at night. I say you are lumps of
radium! Bits and balls of radium, for the glow
| of rays and the rays of the Glow have radiated

j| you and you are now radiating the Glo-rays

1 of God! Now I think I had better stop! It is

Wonderful! ("No, Dear LORD!" came the pro-
test from the adoring throng.)

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Out in the field alone with God! For of the
people there were none to help! I am so glad
that God in one man is a majority. And He
rules the world with Truth and with Grace,
and makes the nations prove the Glo-rays of
His Righteousness and the wonders of His
Love! You have never seen such a Glow Ray!
You have never seen such a ray of Love before
in all of your life, dear ones! You have never
seen such glow in all your life! I didn't mean
to say so much. ("Talk on, LORD," came the
cry.)

Your Deliverer Is Come

I hope those of you that think that you are
sick or afflicted or ill or lame or maimed or
blind, in any way, will take this message in.
I hope that you will adhere to My instructions
within yourselves and for your own selves'
sake, for "God is in the midst of thee, child of
Infinite Spirit and Love Divine." "There is
nought to make you tremble, there is nought
to make you fear!" That is so Wonderful —

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to realize that this can be verified in actuality,
here and now!

"Call upon Me in the day of trouble,
and I WILL deliver you."

If you have not been delivered, some of you —
It is Wonderful! Some of you have been deliver-
ed, have you not? Have you not found rest
for the weary? Have you not found rest for
your souls? ("Yes! Yes!" cried the masses.)
"Over on this side of Jordan," Right here in
the sweet fields of Eden, "Here is a tree of Life
a-blooming! Here is rest for your soul; Here
is rest for you." Here is rest, I say! And that
is the great significance of this Truth, because
it brings the Kingdom of GOD within your
hands' reach and you can declare unto all
the world that the Kingdom of Heaven
is at hand. That is the great significance of
this Truth, that the Presence of God will be
here in your midst, here and now, and here and
there, and everywhere, wheresoever you are,
in hands' reach; for He said, "Rejoice in the

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Lord always, and again I say, rejoice; let your
moderation be made known unto all men, the
Lord is at hand." Isn't it Wonderful? That is
your great consolation, and that is your great
battleaxe in the time of conflicts and combats,
when you are tempted and when you are tried.
Know that God is your refuge, God is your
strength! God is your power and God is your
Light, here and now; and God is not a God
afar off, He is a God at hand! Aren t you glad!
Here and now! An ever-present help, in every
need. Therefore, there is nothing to falter and
there is nothing to fear, for the Lord your God
is with thee and will help thee, wheresoever
thou art!

Clean Heart and Upright Spirit

It is a great consolation to realize these
truths and to rise and walk in the newness of
Life and know ye your God. I say, know ye
your God! For God has always been here with
you. Here and there, and here and now, and
everywhere! But you just did not have faith
to behold Him! God had to create within you

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a clean heart and an upright spirit before you
could see Him. You cannot see Him with an
unclean heart and an unrighteous spirit, but
you can see Him with a clean heart and an
upright spirit, for the Word says,

"Blessed are the pure in heart for
they shall see God."

It is Wonderful!

Aren't you glad that something came along
and cleaned you up? Cleaned your heart and
cleaned your mind, cleaned your soul and
cleaned your body! It is Wonderful! And now
you can see Him as He is, and you can tell
the story, "Saved by Grace." Aren't you glad!
("So glad!" came the reply.)

Now there are many things that I could say,
but the time is well expired, and I must go. I
have something to do and I must go apparently,
yet I AM here and I AM there and I AM
everywhere! It is Wonderful! The Apostle said,

"When I am absent in body, I am
present in Spirit!"

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And you can always recognize MY Everpres-
ence whether you see ME with your physical
eye or not. I did not come to establish, or try
to establish MY Physical or Visible Self in your
presence, but I came and I have established
this Impersonal Life that is incorruptible, un-
defined, and that fadeth not away! Now aren't
you glad! Aren't you glad because you can
partake of this Life? ("Yes, yes!" came the joy-
ous response from thousands.) The Glo-rays of
God! HE has rayed His glows, and glowed His
rays on you! And it has made you a radium!

Living Radiums

I know you didn't think I was going to talk
about that tonight, because I didn't think about
it Myself. I didn't have to think about it! But
I know that the glows and the rays of God
have rayed you, and the glows and the rays
have glowed you, and the glows have rayed
you. Therefore, you became living radiums!
Living radiums! It is Wonderful! And then and

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there, and here and now you are living
radiums. Therefore, you are the light of the
world!

"A city that is set on an hill cannot
be hid."

It is wonderful! For you are the light of the
world! You are jthe light of the world! All you
must needs do is to let these glow rays and this
mighty glow — let the rays of God glow you,
and let the glows of God ray you, and you are
living radium! Aren't you glad! Aren't you glad!
("So glad, GOD!" came the reply.) The Glo-
rays I say!

"In Him was Life and that Life was
the light of men and it lighteth every
man that cometh into the world!"

It didn't say it lighteth SOME men, but it
lighteth EVERY man! Aren't you glad! Aren't
you glad! It is Wonderful! It is Wonderful!

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("Truly Wonderful, GOD ALMIGHTY!" came
the shout.)

Grace For Grace

I say the glows, they are lighting up the
hearts and souls of men! It is Wonderful! Aren't
you glad! ("So glad! So glad!" again came the
shout.) These mighty glows — these mighty
rays lighteth every man that cometh into the
world, and we will have no more cause to say,
"Give me a light for my cigarette!" It is Won-
derful! But I will give you Light, I will light up
your pathway, I will light up your pathway!
For as I AM, so are you, if you only know it
— for this Light lighteth every man that cometh
into the world, and "As many as received Him,
to them gave He power to become the Sons
of GOD. Even to them that believe on His
Name. And of all of His fulness have ALL we
received, Grace for Grace!" Not part of it, but
everybody, free for one, free for all. And all
of His fullness! Every last one has received

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Grace for Grace, whether you are conscious of
it or not.

Now take these thoughts in, dear ones, and
let this Life light you up. Light up your path-
way! Light up your misunderstanding! Light
up your way! Light up your dark world of
sorrows and worries, and turn your darkness
into light! I know you are glad! I know you
are glad! Because these Glo-rays — the glow
has glowed on you! And the rays of His glows
have rayed on you, and have lighted up your
heart, and lighted up your mind, and from
henceforth, you will not have to say, "Brother,"
or "Mister, give me a light for my cigar." I
don't have to tell you not to smoke. But when
you get this Light that I AM talking about, you
will not want to light up a cigar, you will not
want to light up a cigarette! You will not want
a light, neither will you ask your fellow brother
to give you a light. I don't have to tell you not
to smoke; all I tell you to do is to get this
Light — this Light that lighteth every man
that cometh into the world! It is free for one,

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it is free for all. Now aren't you glad! ("So
glad!" came the reply.)

God, No Respecter of Persons

Now, dear ones, the reason the majority of
the people marvel about this, because it is im-
pressed in this Body — is because those that
marvel, they have not lived the life of the
Christ. They have not died the death of the
righteous or the death of a sinner. They have
not put off the old man with all of his deeds;
they have not died fully and cast out of their
system all prejudice, bigotry, envy, jealousy,
malice, all covetousness, all deceit, all denomi-
nations, races, creeds and colors, distinctions
and divisions of every kind; for if they had
done that, then the Christ would have risen
in them as well as ME! For GOD is no re-
specter of persons, and GOD has no respect
unto persons.

And I will light every man that cometh into
the world! HE lights you all up and you have

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a right to be the Light, the same as I. Yea, I
AM the Light of the world! Yes, I AM the
Light of the world! And I want you to know
that did not apply to ME as an individual; I
want you to know that it is written in your
Bible here, in the Gospel, and this is Evan-
gelical the Words that I speak unto you, they
are all Evangelical. It is Wonderful! It is writ-
ten, "Ye are the light of the world," for "a city
that is set on an hill cannot be hid!" And Christ
said, "Ye are the light," and you have as much
right to be the Light as I have! If you claim
it, then live it and be it, and not go around
drunken with the spirit of the world. Dont
go around drunken with the spirit of the
mysterious Babylon that is fallen, that is
fallen! Don't go around with her that has made
all nations drunk with the wine of her fornica-
tion! But let your light shine among men that
they may see your good works and glory your
Father which is in heaven, and then and there
and here and now, you will be the manifested

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Light on earth among men! For as I say, you
are ordinarily a radium.

I hope that you will take that thought in —
of the glow that God has rayed on you, and
that it influxed the radium of His Light in you,
and therefore you are radiums, and therefore
you are the Light of the world.

"A city that is set on an hill cannot
be hid!"

For Your Sakes

Now as I before said, the time is well spent
that I must seemingly depart for the time be-
ing, but I want you all to realize the Gospel
of Truth that I speak unto you, and whatso-
ever you hear about ME, My prosecutions and
persecutions, know that it is for your sakes
that I AM going through these things. Realize
that it is for your sake! Even My so-called op-
ponents, or so-called persecutors, they bear
witness that they have nothing against Me,
have not even heard of ME disturbing the
peace, but it is those that follow ME getting

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so happy! ("So true!" came the sanction.) Now
don't you see what I AM and could be suffer-
ing for your sake and for the Name's sake of
God if it were not for the protection of God
that I have around about ME? So whatsoever
you see, and whatsoever you hear, whatsoever
happens and whatsoever does not happen,
know that I have borne it for righteousness'
sake, and I AM not ashamed of the Gospel
of Christ. That is what gives ME so much
pleasure, because it is the Gospel, and it is the
Power of God unto salvation, to every one that
believeth, and I thank you so much! (Thunder-
ing applause resounds.)

Now let Love, and the blessing of the Spirit,
the blessing of the Spirit, of the sweet com-
munion of God's Infinite Love, be with you,
and as I heard the testimonies of that lady
and gentleman — know how happy their homes
are now! It is Wonderful! To think about how
GOD has changed you! I have changed your
hearts and changed your minds and that is
the great testimony to stand before the world!

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It is wonderful! And causes you to be even
law-abiding citizens, doesn't it? ("Yes, LORD!"
declared the thousands.) You don't want to
violate the laws, and carry guns any more, do
you, by righting and murdering, or doing any-
thing like that any more, do you? ("No, GOD
ALMIGHTY!" shouted the vast multitude.)
Take these thoughts in, and you will be made
well, healthy, and happy, for it is Christ in
you, the hope of Glory! I thank you. (Thun-
derous applause and cheers burst forth from
the adoring thousands.)

Reality of the Love of God

It is written,

"He shall gather the good wheat in
his garner, but the chaff He shall
burn up with unquenchable fire."

And it is so wheresoever I AM. And I don't
care whether you want to be self-denied or
not. I will burn up that which would cause
you not to be self-denied. It is Wonderful! For
the chaff shall burn up with unquenchable fire!

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Some mav not want to be self-denied, but I
will burn' up the chaff anyway! It is Wonder-
ful! (Loud applause resounds.) These and
those of you know MY limitless blessings came
through blood. The abundance of you here
and there and everywhere, with all of the full-
ness of the Attributes of GOD, came through
the blood, came through the shedding of the
blood. For this cause I can rejoice that the
Blood was sacrificed in this Body as well as
in others, for the bringing into actuality of the
reality of the Love of God to mankind. And
this that has been brought into expression in
New York City and State, is but the reflection
of a percent of a percent of a percent of the
outer condition of the mind within! It is but
the outpicturing of a sketch of a reflection of a
percent of a percent of a percent of the limit-
less blessings that I have in storehouse for the
souls of the children of men!

Go Spread the Tidings Round

So I do not regret anything that has seem-

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ingly been endured, I do not regret, as Coun-
sellor Thomas said today, the seeming per-
secutions in Sayville that have answered your
request that you have so often sung, and said,
"Go spread the tidings round! Go spread the
tidings round, wherever man is found!" and
because of criticisms, persecutions, prosecu-
tions, etc., it has spread the tidings round; and
it is being spread wherever man is found!
Those who think they are MY enemies, they
are MY friends. Every knock is a boost, every
criticism is a praise, and every stumbling block
is a stepping stone; it is a blessing! It is Won-
derful!

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